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Posted on 06/05/2026 3:08:56 PM PDT by catnipman
Officials in Northern Colorado are celebrating a new project to improve energy reliability and availability in their communities ... Platte River Power Authority CEO Jason Frisbie says the project is a major step toward reducing its carbon footprint ... The facility will strengthen the county's electric system by storing energy for later distribution during periods of high demand.
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Carbon footprint? The hard truth is YOU are the Carbon they want to control!
Hey people look around you almost everything is Carbon ,LOL
Well a few places have had hydro pumped storage for quite some decades.
I don’t know if it more efficient than Batteries....
The only thing I’ve seen that would be effective as a storage device would be pumped storage hydroelectric.
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As a Carbon based critter, I’m not in favor of Carbon sequestration.
[FMCDH]
The dirty “secret” of all “green” energy is you need to build TWO power plants (battery + windmill or battery + solar) whereas, before, you only had to build ONE.
It is incredibly wasteful of resources.
It’s such a loser all the way around. But he rubes lap it up.
Just netsearch Morro Bay and Battery Fires. Several Morro Bay battery facilities have been shut down due to multiple fires. The bigger they build them, all the more to burn.
The pollution from the fires is toxic. But, hey, “we’re saving the planet” don’t-cha know.
ACTUALLY three as one needs a backup generator for the lean “Free Energy” times.
Are we having fun yet?
We have had hydro pump storage for a long time in SW Lower Michigan. Lake Michigan water is pumped up hundreds of feet into an artificial resevior while power is plentiful and is available in times of higher grid need. It may also be used to help “jump start” the grid after a failure.
High speed train to nowhere is also needed.
Start deploying those Small Modular Nuclear Reactors at the points of widely varying power demands, and get them on assembly line production. That would demolish any assertions that claim “a major step toward reducing its carbon footprint.”
An all-out expansion of the grid and off-grid electrical generation capability, using nuclear, clean coal, and natural gas should be almost like a war mobilization effort, first cutting through all the “review” and “environmental studies” bureaucratic delays, and getting a crash priority for the preparation and expansion of existing and new facilities.
“Can do” works every time it is applied.
three power plants really, because can’t build batteries big enough cost effectively to store intermittent power from wind and solar, so you’ll always need a NG-fired turbine power plant backup [you need those kind of power plants anyway to maintain the system AC sine wave]
“The only thing I’ve seen that would be effective as a storage device would be pumped storage hydroelectric.”
indeed ... and Colorado has two of ‘em ... i’ve personally visited one of ‘em, and it’s a truly awesome sight ...
Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
“I don’t know if it more efficient than Batteries”
Grok says both are 75%-85% effective ... pumped storage obviously is more cost effective for YUGE amounts of power, and you don’t have to worry about humongous toxic battery fires ...
Stop breathing, you’re helping to increase atmospheric carbon.
“CEO Jason Frisbie says the project is a major step toward reducing its carbon footprint “
It is increasing the lithium and cobalt strip mining footprint, and the forest to industrial windfarm/solar wasteland footprint, but whatever.
The number of locations suitable for pumped storage is very low. China put a dam on its largest river (Yangtzee) , it is the equivalent of 30 coal power plants (30gw). But they build 50 new coal plants every year.
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